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Rewritable color nanoprints in antimony trisulfide films

Materials that exhibit large and rapid switching of their optical properties in the visible spectrum hold the key to color-changing devices. Antimony trisulfide (Sb(2)S(3)) is a chalcogenide material that exhibits large refractive index changes of ~1 between crystalline and amorphous states. However...

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Autores principales: Liu, Hailong, Dong, Weiling, Wang, Hao, Lu, Li, Ruan, Qifeng, Tan, You Sin, Simpson, Robert E., Yang, Joel K. W.
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Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33328223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb7171
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author Liu, Hailong
Dong, Weiling
Wang, Hao
Lu, Li
Ruan, Qifeng
Tan, You Sin
Simpson, Robert E.
Yang, Joel K. W.
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Dong, Weiling
Wang, Hao
Lu, Li
Ruan, Qifeng
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description Materials that exhibit large and rapid switching of their optical properties in the visible spectrum hold the key to color-changing devices. Antimony trisulfide (Sb(2)S(3)) is a chalcogenide material that exhibits large refractive index changes of ~1 between crystalline and amorphous states. However, little is known about its ability to endure multiple switching cycles, its capacity for recording high-resolution patterns, nor the optical properties of the crystallized state. Unexpectedly, we show that crystalline Sb(2)S(3) films that are just 20 nm thick can produce substantial birefringent phase retardation. We also report a high-speed rewritable patterning approach at subdiffraction resolutions (>40,000 dpi) using 780-nm femtosecond laser pulses. Partial reamorphization is demonstrated and then used to write and erase multiple microscale color images with a wide range of colors over a ~120-nm band in the visible spectrum. These solid-state, rapid-switching, and ultrahigh-resolution color-changing devices could find applications in nonvolatile ultrathin displays.
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spelling pubmed-77440682021-01-04 Rewritable color nanoprints in antimony trisulfide films Liu, Hailong Dong, Weiling Wang, Hao Lu, Li Ruan, Qifeng Tan, You Sin Simpson, Robert E. Yang, Joel K. W. Sci Adv Research Articles Materials that exhibit large and rapid switching of their optical properties in the visible spectrum hold the key to color-changing devices. Antimony trisulfide (Sb(2)S(3)) is a chalcogenide material that exhibits large refractive index changes of ~1 between crystalline and amorphous states. However, little is known about its ability to endure multiple switching cycles, its capacity for recording high-resolution patterns, nor the optical properties of the crystallized state. Unexpectedly, we show that crystalline Sb(2)S(3) films that are just 20 nm thick can produce substantial birefringent phase retardation. We also report a high-speed rewritable patterning approach at subdiffraction resolutions (>40,000 dpi) using 780-nm femtosecond laser pulses. Partial reamorphization is demonstrated and then used to write and erase multiple microscale color images with a wide range of colors over a ~120-nm band in the visible spectrum. These solid-state, rapid-switching, and ultrahigh-resolution color-changing devices could find applications in nonvolatile ultrathin displays. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7744068/ /pubmed/33328223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb7171 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liu, Hailong
Dong, Weiling
Wang, Hao
Lu, Li
Ruan, Qifeng
Tan, You Sin
Simpson, Robert E.
Yang, Joel K. W.
Rewritable color nanoprints in antimony trisulfide films
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title_short Rewritable color nanoprints in antimony trisulfide films
title_sort rewritable color nanoprints in antimony trisulfide films
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33328223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb7171
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